drxgonfly:(by Abdulla Alkaabi)“…indeed, many cultures all over the world have held that the s
drxgonfly:(by Abdulla Alkaabi)“…indeed, many cultures all over the world have held that the stars and their alignment effect our world and the magic that surrounds it in potent and predictable ways, not least of all the Pawnee people of what is currently the Muggle-state of Nebraska and the AWC North Central District. The star-maps of the Skidi-Pawnee Mages have proven especially efficacious in figuring out the mystical correspondences that influence sorcery in North America. It should therefore be no surprise that the Mesa Academy, one the AWC’s prestigious Seven Schools of Sorcery, has the foremost department of Astrology and Astronomy in the western hemisphere, as it combines the traditions of Hopi, Aztec, Pawnee and countless others in its curriculum. Located in the vast wastelands of the American southwest, Mesa was founded with the goal of preserving the magical traditions of the First Americans. Independently powerful, Native mages found their power multiplied exponentially when they came together and began sharing their knowledge freely, and in the last century the field of magical theory has benefited immensely from news discoveries made from the renewed study of ancient sorceries from what is simultaneously the nation’s youngest and oldest school. Mesa’s Astrology and Astronomy program has long been at the forefront of these discoveries, and it was a team led by Mesa Trained magical theorists who made Audry Mayhew the first magical personage to leave the atmosphere and circumnavigate the moon. Like all magical schools, the teachers, staff and students of the Mesa Academy work hard to keep the secrets of their magical education, at least as much as is possible in this modern age of standardized testing and school accreditation, but something at least is known about the Mesa method of teaching young Mages about the magic of the planets and stars. Unlike the other six schools in the AWC, the Mesa Academy doesn’t teach that magic of the stars radiates down from the sky but rather up from the earth. According to the Mesa way of thinking, the effects of the placement of the stars on magical energies has more to do with the longing of the world for the sky than any unearthly emanations from the heavens, and much of this longing is shaped strongly by both human desire and the desire of the living world around them. Mesa Mages learned a long time ago to track down the places where this desire is particularly strong…by listening to the songs of night birds, and the cries of wolves and coyotes, the magicians and sages of the Mesa Academy can track down the places on the world where the stars actually touch the earth, their powers called down by the very longing of the land to feel their touch. At these closely guarded locations, spread throughout the AWC, the faculty and students of the AWC perform important rituals and rites of passage, and give their young wards guidance in the arts of their ancestors.” -- source link
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